Word: perfecter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seven Democrats and three Republicans can tell their constituents (as well as their children, grandchildren, etc.) that they had perfect attendance records in the House during the first session of the 69th Congress. These Representatives never missed a roll call, whether for a quorum or a vote: Cannon,† Missouri; Green, Florida; Hill, Washington; Huddleston, Alabama; Quin and Rankin, Mississippi; Swank, Oklahoma, Democrats; McLaughlin and Mapes, Michigan; Miller, Washington, Republicans...
...parallel of "Alfonse and Gaston" became perfect when M. Caillaux, conscious that M. Blum had dealt a vicious blow to his policies, yet retained his impeccable politeness to the point of congratulating M. Blum upon the oratorical perfection of his noble and sonorous periods...
...spite of French law and Mongolian folklore, Mabel Bailey (the Countess de Lesdain) maintained that the wedding ceremony was carried through in perfect good faith by both parties. Therefore the court declared marriage was "putative." It is null in law but valid in equity. Daughter Pauline is legitimate...
...first caliph. The words he would write would make 150. This he would do, and did, for the glory of God and the wonder of men. Last week in Cairo, one Nureddon Bey Mustafa, looked long at the grain of white rice with its Koranic minutiae, found it a perfect symbol of food for the starving soul, bought it for $500. Neither scribe nor buyer knew that in England three and a half centuries ago one Peter Balesius (1547-1610) had been even more skilled in micrography, had written within the circle of an English penny the Lord...
...calls upon the virgin daughters of Spain to spend their evenings peeping from a barred window at the cloaked shape of a lover in the doorway opposite, Señorita Alvarez managed to make herself the most competent female stroke-player in the world, not excepting Lenglen. But the perfect execution of strokes does not necessarily mean matches won, and the play of Señorita Alvarez is always more thrilling than dependable. She will sacrifice many errors for an ace, she would rather lose with a gesture than win with a lob, and so it fell out that...